Period 3-Codi Bruhn, Laura Rowley, Stephanie Krieger,Jay Patel &Michael Gardner
About the Speech:
nnSetting: Speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. nNovember 19, 1863. nBattlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. nAuthor: nBorn February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. nOutspoken opponent on expansion of slavery. nAssassinated by John Wilkes Booth April 15, 1965. He helped preserve the US by helping to lead the Union to a victory over the Confederacy. nThesis & Goal of Speech:nGoal: to motivate the Americans to unite together to save the nation. nLincoln mentions that he doesn't want the soldiers that died at Gettysburg, to have died in vain. nAmericans need to step up and work hard to preserve the freedom the soldiers died for. nBelieves that the war is a test of the Union's strength, so he wants everyone to unite and work together.
nDelivered & Received:nMixed reviews by first-hand accounts and historians. nJust over 2 minutes long. The shortness surprised the audience.
Author's Purpose: He wanted to remind the North there reason for fighting. To preserve a young country unmatched by any other country in history in its commitments to principle of freedom, equality, and self-government. In one line he says that the world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. When he says this he is trying to portray that he does not want people to take away from this, the speeches that were given that day. But for them to go beyond that meaning and look into the men and what they died for. He wants them to be remembered so that they do not die in vain. Lincoln wants the audience to not worry about what he says, in fact he could care less what they remember of his speech as long as they remember what those men that died for did, and what they died for.
He later say " But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we can not consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." Lincoln is trying to say that no matter what words are said to dedicate the cemetery to the men that died there, it will not equal how much they have already done.
Background Notes:
Battle of Gettysburg Dated July 1st to July 3rd of 1863. The battle field contained 7500 dead bodies and the twenty four hundred residence of Gettysburg made it a priority to give the dead an honorable and manner burial.
David Wills proposed the idea and paid $2,475.87 to purchase the seventeen acres land now known as the Gettysburg Memorial. David Wills invited Edward Everett, an governor of Massachusetts, president of Harvard University and United States Secretary of State, who gave an two hour speech prior to Lincoln.
David Wills invited Lincoln to come speak at the memorial. He was only given seventeen days notice to write this speech. Contrary top what some believe, the speech was not written on the back of an envelope nor was it written on his train ride to Gettysburg. Once he reached Gettysburg David Wills invited him as a guest in his home the night before the memorial. This is where Lincoln put the finishing touches on the speech.
Rhetoric Devices:
Allusion: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" (first sentence) > This is an allusion to the American revolution and the constitution.
Anaphora: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground"
Epistrophe: "of the people, by the people, for the people" (last sentence)
Anastrophe: "for those here who gave their lives that that nation might live." (1st sentence, 2nd paragraph)
"The world will little note, nor long remember...: (Last sentence, 4th paragraph)
SPAM:
nSpeakern
Abraham Lincoln Purposen
Unite the nation and never forget the sacrifices the soldiers made for the freedom of the country as a whole. n Audience nPeople of America need to not forget the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg. n The Citizens of the United States Mediumn
Speech. Appeals such as Pathos can be more enhanced by a speaker since their emotions can come across in their voice.
Unit Connection: It connects to the conflict and expansion unit because that unit contained many stories pertaining the Civil war and included representations of a disunited country, exactly what Lincoln says that he does not want.
nLogos, Pathos, Ethos or Mythos?n
Primarily pathos. nAppealed to listeners emotions for the fallen soldiers during the war. n Ethos:nAbraham Lincoln led the country as the 16th President of America. He knew what he was talking about. n Mythos:nAppeals to the tradition of the nation being free completely, for everyone.
"a new nation, conceived in Liberty"
Pathos:Sympathy towards the soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
"rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced"
"which they gave the last full measure of devotion"
"that these dead shall not have died in vain"
"but it can never forget what they did here"
"final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live"
Gettysburg Address- Presentation Notes
Period 3- Codi Bruhn, Laura Rowley, Stephanie Krieger, Jay Patel & Michael Gardner
n nSetting: Speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. nNovember 19, 1863. nBattlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
nAuthor: nBorn February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. nOutspoken opponent on expansion of slavery. nAssassinated by John Wilkes Booth April 15, 1965. He helped preserve the US by helping to lead the Union to a victory over the Confederacy.
nThesis & Goal of Speech: nGoal: to motivate the Americans to unite together to save the nation. nLincoln mentions that he doesn't want the soldiers that died at Gettysburg, to have died in vain. nAmericans need to step up and work hard to preserve the freedom the soldiers died for. nBelieves that the war is a test of the Union's strength, so he wants everyone to unite and work together.
nDelivered & Received: nMixed reviews by first-hand accounts and historians. nJust over 2 minutes long. The shortness surprised the audience.
Author's Purpose: He wanted to remind the North there reason for fighting. To preserve a young country unmatched by any other country in history in its commitments to principle of freedom, equality, and self-government. In one line he says that the world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. When he says this he is trying to portray that he does not want people to take away from this, the speeches that were given that day. But for them to go beyond that meaning and look into the men and what they died for. He wants them to be remembered so that they do not die in vain. Lincoln wants the audience to not worry about what he says, in fact he could care less what they remember of his speech as long as they remember what those men that died for did, and what they died for.
He later say " But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we can not consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." Lincoln is trying to say that no matter what words are said to dedicate the cemetery to the men that died there, it will not equal how much they have already done.
Background Notes:
Battle of Gettysburg Dated July 1st to July 3rd of 1863. The battle field contained 7500 dead bodies and the twenty four hundred residence of Gettysburg made it a priority to give the dead an honorable and manner burial.
David Wills proposed the idea and paid $2,475.87 to purchase the seventeen acres land now known as the Gettysburg Memorial. David Wills invited Edward Everett, an governor of Massachusetts, president of Harvard University and United States Secretary of State, who gave an two hour speech prior to Lincoln.
David Wills invited Lincoln to come speak at the memorial. He was only given seventeen days notice to write this speech. Contrary top what some believe, the speech was not written on the back of an envelope nor was it written on his train ride to Gettysburg. Once he reached Gettysburg David Wills invited him as a guest in his home the night before the memorial. This is where Lincoln put the finishing touches on the speech.
Rhetoric Devices:
Allusion: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" (first sentence) > This is an allusion to the American revolution and the constitution.
Anaphora: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground"
Epistrophe: "of the people, by the people, for the people" (last sentence)
Anastrophe: "for those here who gave their lives that that nation might live." (1st sentence, 2nd paragraph)
"The world will little note, nor long remember...: (Last sentence, 4th paragraph)
SPAM:
nSpeaker n
Abraham Lincoln
Purpose n
Unite the nation and never forget the sacrifices the soldiers made for the freedom of the country as a whole. n
Audience
nPeople of America need to not forget the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg. n The Citizens of the United States
Medium n
Speech. Appeals such as Pathos can be more enhanced by a speaker since their emotions can come across in their voice.
Unit Connection: It connects to the conflict and expansion unit because that unit contained many stories pertaining the Civil war and included representations of a disunited country, exactly what Lincoln says that he does not want.nLogos, Pathos, Ethos or Mythos? n
Primarily pathos.nAppealed to listeners emotions for the fallen soldiers during the war. n
Ethos: nAbraham Lincoln led the country as the 16th President of America. He knew what he was talking about. n
Mythos: nAppeals to the tradition of the nation being free completely, for everyone.
- "a new nation, conceived in Liberty"
Pathos: Sympathy towards the soldiers who fought in the Civil War.